Editing Calluna (section)

==In culture==
Heather is seen as iconic of [[Scotland]], where the plant grows widely. When poems like ''Bonnie Auld Scotland'' speak of "fragrant hills of purple heather', when the hero of [[Kidnapped (novel)|''Kidnapped'']] flees through the heather, when heather and Scotland are linked in the same sentence, the heather talked about is ''Calluna vulgaris''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dugpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6|author=Alexander Wallace|title=The heather in lore, lyric and lay ...|year=1858}}</ref>

Purple heather is one of the two [[Floral emblem|national flowers]] of [[Norway]],<ref>{{cite web |title=røsslyng i Store norske leksikon |url=https://snl.no/r%C3%B8sslyng |website=snl.no |access-date=27 May 2022 |language=Norwegian}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-09-27 |title=Norway's National Flower Explained - The Norway Guide |url=https://thenorwayguide.com/norways-national-flower/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=thenorwayguide.com |language=en-US}}</ref> the other being ''[[Saxifraga cotyledon]]''. It was chosen as a national flower on the basis of a vote of popularity in a Norwegian radio show in 1976.<ref name=":0" />

''Calluna vulgaris'' is the [[Province flowers of Sweden|province flower]] of the Swedish province of [[Västergötland]].